What to do if my child’s grandmother took our daughter to get professional pictures taken without our permission or knowledge?
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What to do if my child’s grandmother took our daughter to get professional pictures taken without our permission or knowledge?
After her father and I found out about the pictures we specifically asked her not to distribute them in any way, shape, or form. Even though we asked her not to, she went behind our backs yet again and sent them out to people. We weren’t even told who she sent them too. After all of this we told her that she was not going to be allowed to watch our daughter again and she wouldn’t be allowed to take her picture ever again. She now wants to take us to court for the “grandparents right act”. Is there anything we can do about the pictures? And, is there anyway to fight against her in court? Would we have a case?
Asked on December 2, 2012 under Family Law, New York
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
What you have written about essentially is an internal family dispute as to photographs of your child sent out to third parties that assuming they were appropriate does not lend itself to a legal action.
If you do not want the grandparent having any unsupervised contact with your child, you can simply refuse access of the grandparent to the child.
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